The Cooper Union once again served as a historic venue when Mary Lou McDonald, Sinn Féin President, and Leader of the Opposition in the Dáil, addressed the Irish Unity Summit, declaring that, “We’ve run the numbers, and it is adding up to a vote in 2030 that will create a United Ireland.”
Ms. McDonald’s declaration was not one made-up of hope or wishful thinking. It is a declaration that recognizes
The next time I am in Dublin, I will go to Glasnevin Cemetery, to the Jesuit plot, and leave a small oval-shaped blue-hued stone at the foot of the cross where Gerard Manley Hopkins’ name is engraved. The great nineteenth-century poet is